Don Juan

Airs Monday, September 23 at 11 a.m This week on the San Francisco Symphony, Semyon Bychkov takes the podium and is joined in the spotlight by pianist Kirill Gerstein for a performance of Strauss' Burleske in D minor for Piano & Orchestra. This concert also opens with Strauss' tone poem Don Juan and we'll hear Schumann's Symphony No. 2 in C major. Opus 61.

Airs Monday, August 5 at 11 a.m. This week on the Pittsburgh Symphony maestro Manfred Honeck will be joined on stage by violinist Joshua Bell for a performance of the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms. Mr. Honeck will also lead the orchestra in three works by Richard Strauss, his tone poem Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks.